World Cross Preview: How Will Kenya And Ethiopia Divide The Golds?
The IAAF World Cross Country Championships are in Kampala, Uganda, beginning with the mixed relay at 7:00 AM Central on Sunday. We preview the senior races below. Here are the IAAF previews of the...
View ArticleEthiopia’s deadly rubbish dump landslide was down to politics, not providence...
It was only a misplaced shoe that prevented Fadila Bargicho from losing a second child when an avalanche of rubbish crushed makeshift houses, killing at least 113 people in Addis Ababa earlier this...
View ArticleLetter on Ethiopia to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs /...
Federica Mogherini High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs / Vice-President of the European Commission Rue de la Loi, Wetstraat 200 1049 Brussels Brussels, March 23, 2017 Dear High...
View ArticleElias Wondimu the bridge builder [By Tariku Abas]
Whenever and wherever he pauses to communicate, be it in interviews, friendly chats, academic discussions, or in speeches he delivers, Elias Wondimu returns to a common phrase: building bridges. It is...
View ArticleThe Lords of Living Lies in Ethiopia [Prof Almariam]
Author’s Note: In this commentary, I take a careful look at the “very sophisticated report from the Embassy [of Ethiopia]” submitted for the record at the “Democracy Under Threat in Ethiopia” hearing...
View ArticleBorder Walls and the Rise of the Right [By Dawit W Giorgis ]
A wave of right wing nationalism is sweeping across Europe and the US. A decade ago it was not so visible but in the last two years the phenomenon has gripped the world and created a tension that could...
View ArticleEthiopian Prime Minister will not be an honorary doctorate at the Finnish...
Tampere University was about to appoint Ethiopia’s controversial prime minister an honorary doctorate by the university in May. The press release on the appointment has yet been removed from the...
View ArticleKuwait woman detained for filming Ethiopian maid’s suicide attempt without...
| theguardian| Human rights groups call for investigation after woman posted video to social media of her maid falling from seventh floor in an apparent suicide attempt. Kuwaiti police have detained a...
View ArticleThe Torture Chronicles of Ethiopian Patriot Habtamu Ayalew (in His Own...
Author’s Note: Following is my translation of the Amharic interview given by Habtamu Ayalew to the Voice of America (VOA), Amharic Program on March 15, 2017 and broadcast on the same day and on March...
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